BFL's problem is customers have to order, pay, wait, then receive(if BFL can actually deliever).
Normally, customers order, wait, receive, then pay.

Is some price the new some different price?

Inception ponzi. Maybe Bitcoin consists of ponzis within a ponzi?


They will probably come to the conclusion that Bitcoin consists of scammers shearing sheep and little else and stay away. Those who would come on board in the middle of such bad press worry me. A more fertile ground to recruit Bitcoiners might be Forex & Currency arbitrage sites. There at least you can point to a legitimate use of BTC.

You should probably wait until the top 3 Bitcoin stories include something that is not a Ponzi scheme that swindled a bunch of people who are incapable of due diligence.

A second order problem is that right now (AFAICS) Bitcoin's largest problem is that a large portion of it's user base is very susceptible to confidence scams. Recruiting extremophiles  from ZeroHedge into the Bitcoin user base is probably not a solution to that problem and might even be counter-productive.

I wonder if there is a Bitcoin user out there that has participated in every scam and ponzi scheme to date.

"This one will be different..."

If BFL labs ever got their delivery time down to 3 days, I might consider ordering one of their units.
They should have just made a kickstarter campaign if they were going to fund their business through pre-orders.

How many donations did pirate40 collect I wonder?
I am not interested in what is owed, only what was donated to him.

Taint analysis. Best Bitcoin process ever. 

There was a fad in the alternate currency world to pre-mine some coins in the genesis block, release the block chain, promote the currency, and hope to profit from the pre-mine. My avatar is just hyperbole for this subject.

I actually don't know of a single country for which that is true.
In the US, they can touch all of your property (on the premises) while searching for things that are related.
As far as outside the US, ask Kim DotCom of Megaupload what the cops can't take.

I think the most likely output from BFL is a multi-chip, low production volume, FPGA to ASIC conversion @ ~110nm with a core running @ ~400Mhz. That seems feasible to me, although it would not meet their stated performance goals. What is your opinion?

Physics don't care if he is or is not a competitor. That should be irrelevant to the discussion. Either the physics are right, or they are not.
In all threads about BFL's ASICs the posts should make points about BFL ASICs. You should address the criticisms themselves instead of trying to discredit the person posting them.

I think the calender will say September, October, November, and December. Tailor your Bitcoin plans accordingly.

Actually, $750 worth of GPU will get you 1GH (One 7970 can do 600Mh and they retail for about ~$450.) which works out to 1.3MHs/$
$600 worth of Butterfly labs will get you ~830MHs (BFL Single) which works out to 1.38MHs/$
$15295 worth of Butterfly labs will get you ~25GHs (BFL Mini Rig) which works out to 1.63MHs/$

The BFL Jalapeno claims 3500MH/s for $149 which works out to 23.5Mhs/$. Four times the performance for one quarter of the price.
If the BFL Single has its FPGA core(s) running at 200Mhz, they only need to boost that to 800Mhz (or use 4 ASICs in parallel) which is feasible.
There are companies which specialize in converting FPGA designs to ASICs and then sharing space on wafers with other customers in order to produce small batch sizes economically. It seems feasible that the COGs on the Jalapeno ASIC(s) could be lower than $149.

All that being said, I think 16GH/s will be the new 1GH/s. 

That should read that you have signed up for this forum. If you had read it, you would know that the physics don't add up for at least one of BFL's products.

I too only gamble with Cablez life, never my money

Does this mean these forums will get boring? 

Poll needs to be updated to include MicrocashMike and DannyMaddox accounts
There also needs to be a "sockpuppet" tag.

Maybe force the following to be their avatar?
 

My posts are talking about how you fail to understand my posts. See the irony? I explain, you fail to understand. English is probably not your first language (or your second for that matter) but I have patience.

The posts I told you to read were from when the attack was announced.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94912.msg1051423#msg1051423
"But is your "investment" worth anything if it turns out there is a serious flaw (hypothetical) that renders LTC nonviable? If there is a flaw in the core protocol of LTC, wasn't the damage "done" by the creators of LTC? In that case BTCXpress is just the messenger. IMHO cryptocurrencies should be proof against the whims of one Apple employee."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94912.msg1053598#msg1053598
"Either Litecoin survives the attack, in which case it is a true cryptocurrency that can withstand the whims of a single Apple employee. It may be worth continued investment. Or Litecoin succumbs to the attack, in which case it was never a true cryptocurrency since it could not withstand a single person's attempts to compromise it. It survived only on the "greater fool" theory. Either way, the die was cast many moons ago when Litecoin was designed and implemented. All we are watching is the resolution. "
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95398.msg1054657#msg1054657
"On the other hand, is Litecoin really a currency if one female Apple employee can destroy it? Apple has thousands of female employees, how can you possibly hope to keep them all happy? If Litecoin cannot be harmed by one female Apple employee, then it might be a currency.
Either way what is all the fuss about? Either Litecoin isn't worth saving or it doesn't need to be saved."

My points delt with two possible outcomes:
A) Litecoin will succumb to a 51% attack by a single person with limited means and thus be revealed to be a poor investment.
B) Litecoin survives in which case you do not need to worry about the 51% attack.

If A turns out to be true, why is everyone upset about losing what has been revealed as a very poor place to store your wealth?
If B turns out to be true, why is everyone upset since Litecoin emerged unharmed?

The damage done by this attack was done on this forum. People believed the hype instead of looking at the situation logically. Speculators took fright, as they are prone to do. Supporters of litecoin did not need to lose any time mining or any sleep over this. Speculators had reason to be very worried and excited. So, were you a supporter or speculator?

I know that all you are doing is going on your gut feel. I can't change what is in your gut about me because you refuse to read my posts.
The content in my posts stands on it's own through logic and reason. If you need citations of evidence, ask for them and I will provide them. You will not ask for them because you cannot understand what I type. Thus you will always go on feeling that I am a sock puppet because you read a post once that said I was. That is why I don't have any sympathy for you. Had you listened to reason, you could laugh this whole thing off or even profited from it. Instead, you are still listening to your gut and raging about a person on the internet who lied to you.